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By Our Special Correspondent
HYDERABAD, FEB. 6. The Telugu Desam Legislature Party has charged the Government with launching schemes in the name of farmers "just to enable middlemen to make money". Addressing a press conference, Kala Venkata Rao, deputy leader of the TDLP, and K. Jogulu, MLA, cited cloud-seeding and Jatropha plantation programmes as examples. The Government claimed to have spent Rs. 19 crores on the cloud-seeding programme so far without any concrete result and there was a talk of some of the main players "knocking away Rs. 3 crores in the deal".As if this was not enough, the Government wants to spend Rs. 70 crores more on the programme having least reliability, they said. Similar was the case with bio-diesel plantations. There were differences among experts drawn from different agriculture research organisations based in Hyderabad, they said. Yet the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, appeared keen on promoting it after seeing a private farm near Pune. Considering the proposal to raise plantations on 40,000 acres, there would be a requirement of seed and saplings worth Rs. 12 crores. No one for sure, knows the results and much of this amount would go into the pockets of middlemen pushing the programme, the TDP leaders alleged. The Government failed on other fronts too in the farm sector.
Free power supply
After promising to continue free power supply in an undiluted form before elections, the Government was now talking of categorisation. The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) had opened 60 purchasing centres but not buying cotton from farmers, often leading to a tense situation between CCI officials and farmers, they said accusing the Government of not taking any interest to rescue farmers. In the irrigation sector too, the Government had promised that it would take up projects worth Rs. 46,000 crores but none had taken a concrete shape, they observed.
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